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[Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho <renato.filho@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/04/2013 10:20 AM, Sid Payton wrote:
>
> Hello Renato,
>
Hi Sid, thanks for the reply.

> I'm working with Mathias on this project. I thought about integrating
> this app into a standard application like telepathy as well and
> thought of this as the ultimate goal at first as well.
> But here are a few things that need to be considered and resolved:
>
> - Most people people would expect a standalone whats-app app linke
> they know from other devices (this will resolve it self after some time)
>
Ok, I am not sure about this information :D, because most of the people
I talked here prefer a single application for all communication.  But we
can research more about that and ask the opinion of the designers.

> - people would geht confused which way they used to communicate (chat
> or Whats app which I belive a simple mark up wouldn't resolve). The
> people on the other side would get annoyed because of receiving
> answers on another service, which they would blame Ubuntu on.
>
This depends, if you are using a good chat application this will be
solved by the application (Ex. if the conversation starts on the watsApp
all the following messages should follow this protocol, you can decide
which protocol to use at the first message on the thread), we can
discuss this more deep if we diced to follow this path.

> But non the less, I belive that a unified massaging service is the
> higher goal. After all wie just want to communicate with our friends
> and family the cheapest and fastest way possible and don't want to
> care which app I have to use. I also think that the messaging
> indicator is doing this job already very well.
>
Yes I think the idea is keep this as simple as possible, if only one
application is confuse we can use different applications and the
messaging indicator is ready to support different apps not only
telepathy ones.

> What do you thing? Are my concerns justified or can you think of a
> solution?
>
Ok in my opinion only one application for messages is the best solution,
but since this is a open source project we can ask/wait for people to
give they opinion in the last case we can have both solutions
implemented, but for this we need keep the protocol implementation
separated from the application (A shared library will be a good
solution). (I did not check the code yet, I am not sure how you are
implementing it).


> All the best,
> Jan
>
Thanks
Renato